Car-fender



No. 68,325. Patented Nov. I, I898. J. SEXTON.

C A R F E N D E R (Application filed May 27, 1898.}

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN SEXTON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,325, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed May 2 7, 1898. Serial No. 681,927. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN SEXTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fenders for use on street-cars in which a protecting-apron projects out from and in front of the car to protect life and limb; and it consists in the novel features herein described, and shown in the drawings, and more particularly set forth in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple attachment for ordinary street-cars, easily and cheaply made and readily attached to the car and adjustable thereon, which will provide a life and limb saving device when affixed thereto. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device mounted on the truck of a car. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed sectional View of the guard-roller B and the cross-brace and roller-guard P. Fig. 3 is a detailed View of the gearing the sprocket, and sprocketchain whereby motion is imparted to the guard-roller B.

A is a flexible apron, preferably composed of wire-screening, attached on its front end to the cross-brace P and at its rear end to the drum 0, upon which it is wound to adjust the elevation of the guard-roller.

B is an air-inflated guard-roller mounted in bearings on the front end of the frame J. On the axle N of the guard-roller is mounted the sprocket-gear I, and motion is imparted to this shaft through the sprocket-chain F, which passes over the sprocket I and over a sprocket on the counter-shaft H. This shaft carries a spur-gear which meshes with the gear Gon the main axle L of the truck. This attachment will impart to the guard-roller a motion the reverse of that of the wheels of the truck. The apron A is held in any desired position by the bolt D, which drops into holes in the periphery of the drum 0. The drum 0 is mounted in the front end of the frame M.'

Immediately in the rear of the guard-roller is the cross-brace P, concave on its front face that the rubber casing of the guard-roller may fit therein. It is sufficiently removed therefrom. to permit the free movement of the guard-roller. The object of givingthis crossbrace this concavity and placing the same close to the guard-roller is to provide a support for the air-inflated rubber casing of the guard-roller whenany object bears against the same. Without this support when any object came in contact with the casing it would simply be pushed back until the side of the casing bearing against the obstacle came in contact with the axle of the guardroller, and the air-cushion would be thereby ineflectual. On the happening of an accident when a person is unable to get out of the way of the car he will first be struck by the guard-roller, which has a movement the reverse of that of the wheels of the truck. The rubber casing of the guard-roller being elastic and yielding will prevent the person being hurt and will cause him to be thrown up and onto the apron A, because whenever any part of the body comes in contact with the casing an indentation is made therein, and as its front and exposed side rotates upwardly it will carry that part of the body resting against it up and onto the apron and will not permit the body to pass under the gu ard-roller, the indentations preventing the parts of the body from slipping off the guard except when the parts are elevated and thrown onto the apron.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A car-fender comprising, the wire-netting, A, mounted on the frame, J, and projecting in front of the car, the upper end attached to the drum, 0, and adapted to be wound thereupon; the drum, 0, having attached thereto, the inner end of the wire-netting, A, and having holes in the periphery thereof to receive the shank of the bolt, D; the elastic guard-roller, B, journaled in the frame, J; the sprocket-chain, F, connecting the axle of the truck and the guard-roller, B, and adapted to transmit motion from the axle of the car to the guard-roller, B.

2. The herein-described car-fender comprising; the frame, J, pivoted to the truck, M; the guard-roller, B, mounted in the front end of the frame, J, having actuating means, as shown; the flexible netting, A, attached at its inner end to the drum, 0, and at its outer end to the cross-brace, I, and adapted to be rolled on the drum, 0; the drum, 0, journaled in the front end of the truck, M, having holes in the periphery thereof for the reception of the bolt, D, and bolt, D, all mounted on and moving, with the truck, M.

3. The combination with a car, of the frame, J, pivoted to the truck thereof and adapted thereby to lower or elevate the projecting end thereof; the air-inflated guard-roller, B, journaled in the projecting end of the frame, J, and having means for the rotation as shown;

the screen, A, attached to said frame and to the drum, C; and the drum, C, having holes in the periphery thereof to receive the adjusting-bolt, 1); and the bolt, D, substantially as shown and described.

Signed by me at Los Angeles, California, this 19th day of May, 1808.

JOHN SEXTON.

\Vitn esses:

HENRY T. HAZARD, EDWIN HARPHAM. 

